Italy's highest court confirms former leader Silvio Berlusconi's acquittal on charges of abuse of office and paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

An experimental cancer drug has been fast-tracked to NHS patients under a new government scheme in England.

A jury in the US rules that the writers of Blurred Lines - one of the best selling singles of all time - copied a Marvin Gaye track from 1977.

A vet investigating the alleged poisoning of a Crufts dog says he has no idea whether it happened during the competition.

New research shows that rather than using pigments, chameleons change colour by tweaking the arrangement of crystals in their skin cells.

The BBC finds evidence of an illegal Chinese market in children, with many being sold online having been abducted from their parents.

Armed thieves seize a reported €9m (£6m) worth of jewels from two high-security lorries at a motorway toll booth in central France.

A former Ministry of Defence special adviser says David Cameron gave a "personal assurance" that the defence budget would increase after 2015.